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A man with medium dark skin tone stands in a doorway and holds the two doors open. Inside the space are large machines with gears. Text: Explosion at the Poem Factory. Kyle Lukoff and Mark Hoffmann.

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Explosion at the Poem Factory

Game Face. By Shari Green. Making the next save is the least of his worries. A boy with medium-pale skin tone and brown hair looks up at the night sky full of stars. He is wearing a white hockey goalie helmet with a pattern of black and red stars.

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Game Face

A brown owl flies through mist. Its eyes are yellow. Its feathers are spotted and striped with different shades of brown. Text: An Owl at Sea. Susan Vande Griek. Ian Wallace.

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An Owl at Sea

A photograph shows a close-up of a woman’s face. We see the bottom right corner of her face showing the side of her mouth, her cheek, and a part of her nose. She has light skin tone and short, curly, dark hair. She wears a pink lip colour and blush. Around her neck is a short, yellow pearl necklace and she is wearing a fine-knit, teal sweater. Text: Marie-Renée Lavoie. Autopsy of a Boring Wife. “True to life and wildly entertaining.” – Huffington Post.

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Autopsy of a Boring Wife

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Northwest Passage

Farming land is divided into sections. On a grassy section is a windmill, a tractor, and three chickens. A red roof looks out over the land. On the roof sits a white cat. Text: The Mostly True Story of Pudding Tat, Adventuring Cat. Caroline Adderson.

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The Mostly True Story of Pudding Tat, Adventuring Cat

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A Storytelling of Ravens

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Sopa de frijoles / Bean Soup

Safekeeping, a Writer's Guided Journal for Launching a Book with Love by Chelene Knight, foreword by Ivan Coyote. The title, subtitle, and author name appear in black type in a white box against an indigo background that is lightly textured to look like handmade paper.

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Safekeeping

Cover: “A Kid is a Kid is a Kid, written by Sara O’Leary, illustrated by Qin Leng.” The title looks like it has been printed by a child in different colored crayons. Beneath the title is a group of fourteen kids, illustrated in ink and watercolor. Some look out at us; others talk, laugh, play or wave, having a busy, noisy good time.

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A Kid Is a Kid Is a Kid

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As Glenn as Can Be

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As Long as the Rivers Flow

Cover: Birds on the Brain. By Uma Krishnaswami. Three kids stand on an apartment building rooftop. The girl on the left has medium-dark skin tone, wears her black hair in pigtails and holds a book called "Birds." The girl in the middle has medium skin tone, black hair in looping breads and holds a pair of binoculars. The boy on the right has medium-light skin tone, short black hair and wears a karate uniform. He does a karate pose. Birds of varying species fly in the sky over them.

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Birds on the Brain

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Little Dogs

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Amos's Sweater

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Canadian Railroad Trilogy

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The Hollow under the Tree

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The White Cat and the Monk

A grassy ridge looks out over a series of tree-covered hills and mountains. A person stands on the ridge looking out over the edge. They wear a heavy jacket and pants. Text: Ridgerunner. Gil Adamson. Award-winning author of The Outlander. Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist. WritersÕ Trust of Canada Winner. WritersÕ Trust Fiction Prize. ÒA brilliant literary achievementÉ I loved every page.Ó Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner Michael Redhill.

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Ridgerunner

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Away

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When I Listen to Silence

Cover: Eyes on the Ice. By Anna Rosner. Two boys depicted in red play hockey on an ice rink at night. They wear knit sweaters, caps and gloves. In the background there are buildings with lit-up windows and an illuminated street lamp. Rising above and behind the scene looms a man wearing a coat, hat and glasses that reflect the white snow.

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Eyes on the Ice

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Stella, Star of the Sea

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Selected Poems 1983–2020

A black tree is against a yellow background. The tree has white fruit shaped like pears and black leaves. The silhouette of a girl and a chicken are in the tree sitting on a high branch. Text: How to Bee. Bren MacDibble.

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How to Bee

Cover: Everybelly by Thao Lam. Maddie, a child with medium skin tone, a floral long-sleeve swim top, blue swim cap and goggles, swims underwater. Air bubbles float up from her mouth to the surface. The arms and legs of a smaller child with dark skin tone in an inflatable tubeare visible on the top right edge of the page. Swimming next to the small child is the torso of a woman with dark skin tone and a yellow floral one piece swimsuit is visible.

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Everybelly

Once Upon a Bookstore

Sharon, Lois and Bram's Skinnamarink

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City Streets Are for People

Cover: Innie Shadows by Olivia M. Coetzee. “Groundbreaking and unique, character-driven crime fiction." —Deon Meyer. A stylized illustration of a mountain beneath a bright moon and clouds. The background is purple, and the typography and mountain are in vibrant green and yellow. Eyes are scattered at the bottom.

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Innie Shadows

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Friend or Foe?

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Arroz con leche / Rice Pudding

Skating Wild on an Inland Sea. Written by Jean E. Pendziwol, illustrated by Todd Stewart. Two children skate on the blue-green ice of a large lake. Their skate marks form the curves and loops of the white letters in the title. Tree-covered islands appear in the background, beneath a bright blue sky.

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Skating Wild on an Inland Sea

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A Salmon for Simon

Cover: Shadow Price by Farah Ghafoor. Over a bright yellow background, the cover features an illustrated pair of hands making casting a shadow puppet in the shape of a dog.

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Shadow Price

A man with light skin tone and brown hair does a handstand. He wears a black and yellow striped sweater and black pants. In front of him is a white dog. The background is a swirl of coloured stripes. Text: Your Turn, Adrian. Helena Öberg. Kristin Lidström.

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Your Turn, Adrian

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niwîcihâw / I Help

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Shin-chi's Canoe

Alone. The Journeys of Three Young Refugees. By Paul Tom and Mélanie Baillairgé. A woman and girl embrace. The girl rests her head on the woman’s shoulders, and the woman wraps her hands around the girl’s body. The woman’s upper body appears to be fading, ghostlike, into the background. Both have dark skin tone and black hair. The woman wears a red dress with long sleeves, and white hoop earrings. The girl appears to be teen age and has a green shirt, black skirt and a black backpack.

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Alone

Cover: In a Land Without Dogs the Cats Learn to Bark by Jonathan Garfinkel. Black and white text of the title is set in a Soviet-era propaganda font. A small black illustration of a cat walking is in the middle-right of the page. The background is red.

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In a Land without Dogs the Cats Learn to Bark

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They Say Blue

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Salmon Creek

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The Red Sash

All That Grows. Words and pictures by Jack Wong. A close-up shows a boy’s face as he stares wide-eyed at four tiny green plants that have sprouted in a bed of soil. The boy has medium skin tone and brown eyes. The title is hand-lettered in green, and the author’s name is in pink.

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All That Grows

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The Shadow

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Look Around, Baby!

Cover: Colors! !Colores! by Jorge Luján & Piet Grobler. The background is a rainbow of land.

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Colors! / Colores!

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A Pond, a Poet, and Three Pests

A Place for Pauline by Anouk Mahiout. Illustrations by Marjolaine Perreten. A girl with light skin tone and short red hair wears a red dress. She lies on a long green cushion with eight small pillows and a white and orange cat curled up beside her. The girl, Pauline, has a book face down on her chest. Her arms are spread out on both sides as she looks up. Beside the cushion is a stack of books. Above her are two shelves with books and knickknacks, with a string of red flowers hanging between them.

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A Place for Pauline

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The House Next Door

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Ancient Thunder

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West Coast Wild ABC

Cover: Blanket by Ruth Ohi. A white cat with grey fur around each eye is named Cat. Cat wears a pajama shirt and pants that are yellow with red polka dots. Cat sits and holds their knees to their chest under a blue blanket. Across from Cat sits a white dog with grey fur around the eyes and floppy ears. Their name is Dog. They wear a blue sweater with green stripes and white pants. Dog rests their hands on their knees and touches their forehead to Cat’s. They both smile.

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Blanket

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Talking with Mother Earth / Hablando con Madre Tierra

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Birding with Yeats

Cover: “My Mad Hair Day. By Nathalie Dion.” The red title text is placed on yellow and white striped wallpaper and is surrounded by bushy, curly blonde hair that fills the page. The hair belongs to a young girl with light skin tone standing in the center of the page with her eyebrows raised and her mouth shaped like an “o.” She wears a short green dress and holds a bag in each hand, one green striped and the other a red gingham. The floor beneath her feet is red tile.

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My Mad Hair Day

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Salsa

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Any Questions?

It is snowing. An up-close view of the corner of a bus window shows a child with light skin tone sitting inside right next to the window. They wear a hat and scarf. Inside the window are the silhouettes of people standing and holding on to the bus railings. A busy city street with cars stopped at a red light and tall buildings are in the reflection of the window. Text: Small in the city. Sydney Smith.

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Small in the City

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Poems for All the Annettes

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Tokyo Digs a Garden

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Drive

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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

It is nighttime in a forest. A full moon is in the sky. The moon has a face and looks down on a fox, who looks up. The forest is red and blue. Text: Moon Wishes. Guy and Patricia Storms. Milan Pavlović.

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Moon Wishes

Cover: Lantern, poems by Sanna Wani. Above a cream-coloured background, a forest green border is stamped. Inside the border are three ginko leaves stamped in various directions, as though falling. The text appears in cursive lettering.

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Lantern

One Goal: How Soccer Can Help Save the Planet. Heather Camlot and Drew Shannon. A boy with medium-dark skin tone, wearing a red soccer kit with black shorts, stands on a large green soccer field and winds up to kick the ball. Ahead of him, a girl with light skin tone and red hair in a ponytail, wearing the same uniform, runs toward the net where a goalkeeper in yellow stands. A crowd of people watch from the stands, andn image of the Earth, focused on North America and South America, hangs above them.

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One Goal

Cover: Boozhoo! Hello! By Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley. Translated by Mary Ann Corbiere. A wolf is drawn in a Woodland art style, made out of simple organic shapes with smoothed, rounded lines. The wolf walks across the page while looking up at the title. It has a black head, and its body is made up of several different shapes with varying designs in blue, orange, red and green. The background is orange.

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Boozhoo! / Hello!

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Bear’s Winter Party

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Out the Window

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Africville

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Almost Invisible

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Ghost Train

Cover: A Single Dreadlock. Written by Xaiver Michael Campbell and illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes. A close-up of half of a young boy’s smiling face is shown on the right side of the cover. He has dark skin tone and light brown eyes. His hair is dark brown, medium length and tightly curled, except for one single dreadlock. Over his shoulder we see a red-and-white fishing boat with a lobster trap on the back. It floats in front of a red boathouse on large wooden beams. Behind that, are rolling grassy hills.

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A Single Dreadlock

Bare, white trees line a small, round pond. Animals in shades of white peek out from the trees and tall grass. At the opposite end of the pond is a child and a dog standing in grass. They are in shades of black and white. Text: At the Pond. Geraldo Valério.

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At the Pond

Cover: House of Anansi presents Xanax Cowboy, poems, written and directed by Hannah Green. The cover is yellow, monochrome. The title text is large and black, and the font appears as though stamped with ink.

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Cover: Community Snowman. Story by Deborah Kerbel. Illustrated by Tine Modeweg-Hansen. This book is wordless and laid out in a graphic novel style. There are three snowy scenes stacked on top of each other against a blue background of people of various ages and skin tones pushing large balls of snow alone or together in colourful winter clothing.

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Community Snowman

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Pirate Queen

Cover: “Aquí era el paraíso. Here Was Paradise. Humberto Ak’abal. Poemas seleccionados. Selected Poems. Arte por / Art by Amelia Lau Carling.” A jaguar head painted in watercolor fills the foreground. The background is composed of green hills covered with people, animals, a house, a pickup truck and trees, and a blue body of water where people bathe. The bottom quarter of the background behind the hills is turquoise, and the top three quarters are orange.

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Aquí era el paraíso / Here Was Paradise

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The Substitute

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Grant and Tillie Go Walking

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The Composition

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The Spotted Dog Last Seen

When Spider Met Shrew by Deborah Kerbel. Illustrations by Geneviève Côté. These images were done in watercolour. A small black spider hangs down from her web that covers a corner of the image. The spider smiles at a small brown shrew who stands on his hind legs and smiles back with a wave. The sky is blue behind them.

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When Spider Met Shrew

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The Lost Spells

A girl with dark skin tone pulls a red wagon behind her against a beige background with an outline of dark beige window panels. In the wagon is a tall pile of red, yellow, blue, and green objects. They tower over her. In front of her is a yellow fire hydrant. Text: Maggie’s Treasure. Jon-Erik Lappano. Kellen Hatanaka.

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Maggie’s Treasure

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A Sweet Meeting on Mimouna Night

Cover: “Burying the Moon. By Andrée Poulin and Sonali Zohra.” A girl with medium-dark skin tone stands in a field, facing away from us. The girl wears sandals and a blue dress over a white shirt, and her dark hair is braided. She holds a pick and stares at the big full yellow moon. There is a hole in the ground beneath the moon. The field and sky are shades of purple, blue and pink. There are swirls in the sky behind the moon.

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Burying the Moon

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The Breadwinner

Cover: West Coast Wild Baby Animals. By Deborah Hodge. Pictures by Karen Reczuch. A mama otter embraces a baby otter on her stomach. Both otters have their eyes closed, with the baby's head resting against the mother's mouth. Green seaweed surrounds them. The illustrations are created in watercolor paints color pencil.

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West Coast Wild Baby Animals

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My Grief, the Sun

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P'ésk'a and the First Salmon Ceremony